Rising star and wheelchair enthusiast Aaron Simmonds is making his Edinburgh Fringe debut with his new show Disabled Coconut. The Jewish Comedian of the Year 2017 and 2017 BBC New Comedy Award finalist promises to tell audiences about how his first paid gig led to him performing on BBC2 a year later, and the events that led to him being trolled online for not being disabled enough.
Entries are invited for the 2020 New Acts of the Year Competition. For the second year running the final will be back at its original venue, the Hackney Empire, where it started out over thirty years ago.
It will take place on 14th March 2020.
A short clip of the spoof African dictator character played by Sliced/Famalam star Samson Kayo has been released.
The character, who is set to front a pilot entitled The Colonel Banjoko show, is at the centre of a complaint from stand-up comedian Benjamin Bankole Bello, who has been doing a spoof African dictator character called President Obonjo on the live comedy circuit for a decade.
Brilliant comedian Aisling Bea has written a sitcom which she also stars in and it is coming to your screens this August. This Way Up starts on Channel 4 on August 8th at 10pm and the whole series comes out th
Inbetweeners and I'm a Celebrity star Emily Atack has added new autumn dates for her hit stage debut Talk Thirty to Me.
New episodes of the classic crimefighting cartoon will feature special guests.
Michael Frayn’s classic farce about a farce, Noises Off, which has played all over the world, returns to the West End as it heads to the Garrick Theatre from 27th September 2019 to 4th January 2020. “Is this the funniest farce ever?” asked the Evening Standard when this production opened at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. And replied: “Yes. Yes it is.”
Comedian, author and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! survivor Shappi Khorsandi is back on tour this autumn following a seven-night run in Edinburgh.
Packed full of gags and cultural observations, Skittish Warrior…Confessions of a Club Comic is Shappi's warts-and-all journey of the 90s comedy scene, breaking through on telly and letting it all slip away.
Comedian Richard Stott is making his Edinburgh Fringe debut this summer and he certainly has an original story. Richard was born with Poland Syndrome making him lopsided with a misshapen hand and missing pectoral muscle. Following life-changing surgery he now has toes for fingers on his left hand and in this unflinchingly honest show he examines body image, mental health and being disabled in an image-obsessed world.
Just For Laughs has revealed their 2019 collection of New Faces – the discovery showcase that propels up-and-coming performers into the comedy stratosphere. New Faces has been an unmissable part of the Just For Laughs Festival since 1996, where the freshest comedians in the game gear up to take the microphone and change the face of comedy.
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